In Defence of Aging
Recently, I made my husband promise that he would support my effort to embrace a natural aging process rather than spending the rest of my life trying to look younger. He squeezed my […]
Category Archives: Challenges
Defining Moments: The Moments about which I will Forever Write
Last week, Caitlin Kelly at Broadside wrote about life-changing moments: the events that divide “the moments before and the moments afterward into two very different lives.” Check it out–it’s a beautiful […]
“Look Up:” The viral video reminding us that Real Life is not the pings from our phone
Have you seen this one? Gary Turk’s short film depicts the sentiments of the poem that acts as narration. The poem discusses the fact that despite how “connected” we are by our […]
Make Time: How Digital Communication is Turning Us Into Shitty Friends.
One of the things I find really interesting in the time-spending of some of the great minds in history is that many of them set aside time for “correspondences.” They […]
Homesickness: The Chronic Illness of an Expat
I just booked our summer vacation–a week in Scotland followed by a long weekend in Germany. I am Excited. We’ve been to Scotland before. And we loved it. My father’s […]
the self-styled life 